The Context

“Companies that apply advanced technologies and new ways of working generate more value than those that don’t”, observes Mckinsey, a leading consulting firm.

In certain organizations, enterprise processes from recruitment and risk assessment to purchase order (PO) processing and travel requests are stuck in the 90s – still using Excel to manage complex business processes, which jeopardizes data

For example, in October 2020, Public Health England (PHE) misplaced nearly 16,000 COVID test results, which was related to PHE's use of Excel spreadsheets.

Instead of using Excel for business management, the future is Low-Code Application Platforms (LCAP). An LCAP allows you to build entire applications, including from Excel, to automate your business processes.

If you’re looking to optimize processes in your organization, then start through Excel. You can learn how to build an application from Excel in under 30 minutes!

Simply signup for this webinar. This webinar can literally help you deliver your first app within a few hours.

Problems with Excel

When Excel is used for mission-critical processes, it is bound to create problems like version control issues, lost information, bad data, and keeping track of tasks. Key problems that companies face when managing their work using spreadsheets only include:

• Missing approval processes for an Excel entry

• Consolidation of data from multiple files in Excel



• Trying to manually transfer information into Excel from emails, meetings & phone calls

Management by Excel: Typical Use Cases For Automation

Excel is the workhorse in most organizations. It works best for simple tasks; however, for more complex processes and workflows, Excel has its limitations. Some of the key use cases of ‘Management by Excel’ are:



• Recruitment
• Event Management
• Project portfolio management
• Risk assessment
• Call for bids
• PO processing
• Campaign management
• Accounting suppliers

The Case for Low-Code

Leading research firm Forrester in its report “Predictions 2021: Software Development” revealed that “During the pandemic, many organizations embraced low-code platforms to build and deploy new apps fast. These experiences will drive most development shops to adopt low-code tools and more.” Executives and teams can take advantage of this trend and turn their Excel-based processes and workflows into functional apps.

Low-Code Platforms provide a development environment with visual application designers and other graphic modeling methods. This significantly accelerates development and deployment time for business applications.

Customer Scenarios for Low-Code

Some of the common customer scenarios for using a Low-Code Platform are:

• A large portfolio of apps that need high effort for maintenance
• Migration of legacy systems to reduce compliance risks and maintenance costs
• Digital customer interface to improve the availability of customer services

We will discuss three more scenarios in the webinar that may be called ‘low-hanging fruits’ to turn into apps.

The Webinar

In this webinar, you can learn how to use a Low-Code Platform to quickly digitize and automate business processes previously managed in Excel files and spreadsheets.

Be sure to register today!

https://resources.agilepoint.com/webinar-start-your-digital-transformation-with-excel